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| Types and Shadows: Intimations of Divinity | “Types and Shadows: Intimations of Divinity” will be on display in the Museum of Art from Sept. 17, 2009, to March 13, 2010. Using the structures of metaphor and analogy from the language of the scriptures, this exhibition of traditional and contemporary works will enlighten the hearts and the minds of viewers as they participate in the process of seeking out and unraveling the types and shadows contained in these works that “point to” the Savior’s divine mission. The museum is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,Thursday evening from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free. |
| "Social Entrepreneurship and Self-Reliance" | "Social Entrepreneurship and Self-Reliance" is this year's theme The Brigham Young University Center for Economic Self-Reliance will be hosting the 12th Annual Economic Self-Reliance Conference, "Social Entrepreneurship and Self-Reliance," Thursday and Friday, Nov. 5-6, in the BYU Conference Center. Registration for the conference is $185. If purchased on or before Friday, Oct. 26, registration is $160. The fee does not include the awards banquet. Registration discounts are available for large groups, BYU faculty and staff and college or high school students. For more information on the conference and to register, visit esrconference.byu.edu. The ESR 2009 Conference will include panels and discussion sessions covering such topics as new strategies for teaching those in poverty, the impact engineers have in alleviating poverty, business solutions for development and innovative ideas for investing in new social markets. Participants will also explore the most common paths to becoming social entrepreneurs. Keynote speakers at the conference include Jim Fruchterman, founder of Benetech, a nonprofit company that creates technology solutions for underserved communities, and Kushal Chakrabarti, co-founder and CEO of Vittana, a nonprofit foundation that provides student loans to the developing world. The Thursday night Social Innovator of the Year Award Reception and Banquet will honor Fruchterman. The award has been part of the Economic Self-Reliance Conference since 2001. The conference will also host an Exhibition Fair, which will provide a venue for organizations to display their achievements and network with conference participants. The fair will be held throughout the entire ESR Conference. |
| Women's Soccer- Semifinal GM#3: #2 SDSU vs. Utah | MWC Conference Women's Soccer BYU Women's Soccer is now on sale. |
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| "Absent Friends" | Alan Ayckbourn's play "Absent Friends" will be showcased in the Margetts Theatre. "Absent Friends" is a dark comedy by a master of contemporary drama about a woman, Diana, who invites her friend Colin over for tea after his fiancee dies. Tempers and patience boil over in this British satire of middle-class mentalities and materialism. Evening Performances Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. There will also be a Saturday matinee Nov. 7 at 2 p.m. There will be no performances Sundays or Mondays. Tickets are available at the Fine Arts Ticket Office, (801) 422-4322 or at arts.byu.edu. Reduced-price tickets are available for the dress rehearsals Oct. 28 and 29. |
| Brahms concert featuring Zukerman | Pinchas Zukerman and the Utah Symphony will be visiting Brigham Young University for an all Brahms concert Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Tickets range in price from $1 to $10 and are available through the Fine Arts Ticket Office, (801) 422-4322, or online at byuarts.com. This event is also part of the artsPASS and Performing Arts season ticket packages. The symphony will be showcasing two pieces, the Concerto No. 1 for Piano in D minor with pianist Jonathan Biss and the Symphony No. 4 in E minor. With 21 Grammy nominations, Zukerman has made a lasting impression on the music world as both a soloist and conductor. He was also the recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1983 that was presented by President Ronald Reagan. Originally from Israel, Zukerman moved to the United States and attended The Juilliard School and later won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He has since toured across the world performing and conducting. |
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| Nan Osmond Grass Lecture | Canadian author and critic Tim Wynne-Jones will deliver the annual Nan Osmond Grass Lecture on Thursday, November 5 at 11:00 a.m. in the Education in Zion Auditorium (B-192 JFSB) on the BYU campus. Wynne-Jones is the award-winning author of more than 30 books. The lecture is free and open to the public and the BYU campus community. Tim Wynne-Jones is the award-winning author of books for children, young adults, and adults. Now a resident of Perth, Ontario, Tim graduated from Ridgemont High School, Ottawa in 1967, earned an Honours BA in Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo in 1974, and an MA in Visual Arts at York University in 1979. In addition to writing, Tim has lectured in Canada, England, and the United States and currently serves on the faculty of the MFA program in writing for children and young adults at Vermont College. His books have received many awards, including the Governor General’s Award (1993 and 1995), an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, several Best Children’s Book of the Year Awards from the Canadian Library Association, and Best Books for Young Adults citations from the American Library Association. Tim also has the distinction of being the first Canadian author to with the prestigious Boston-Globe Horn Book Award. For more information, go to his website: www.timwynne-jones.com The Nan Osmond Grass professorship recognizes the positive influence of Nan Osmond Grass on the lives of countless students during her exemplary teaching career at BYU. Indirectly, the this professorship also honors the legacy of Nan’s family—including her father, Alfred Osmond, a member of the BYU English faculty for thirty-four years who passed on his love for Shakespeare to his daughter Nan; her mother, Almie Elizabeth Lloyd, a teacher who had a remarkable gift for believing in students, which Nan sought to emulate; and her sister, Irene Osmond Spears, a BYU professor of English and Humanities whose lively mind and prodigious knowledge of languages was legendary. All told, the Osmond family served on the BYU faculty continuously for seventy-one years. The Nan Osmond Grass Professorship celebrates this remarkable legacy, as well as the particular contributions of Nan Grass. Grass Lecture Series: In addition to funding the recipient’s research and teaching agendas, the Grass Professorship funds a lecture series on literature and enduring values. This series is intended to educate students, faculty, and the public in how great literature enriches our understanding and appreciation of life. Presenters will be selected from distinguished non-BYU faculty, while the presentations will be aimed at an educated public rather than at experts alone. Consistent with the focus of the professorship, the Grass Lecture Series is an occasion to educate its audience in the value of reading literature, as well as the particular permanent values embodied in specific literary works and authors. |
| "Between Belonging and Otherness: The Book as Passport" | Canadian author and critic Tim Wynne-Jones will be presenting "Between Belonging and Otherness: The Book as Passport" at the Annual Nan Osmond Grass Lecture sponsored by the Brigham Young University English Department Thursday, Nov. 5, at 11 a.m. in B-192 Joseph F. Smith Building. The lecture is free and open to the public and the BYU campus community. Wynne-Jones will discuss the role books play as passports into the real world. He identifies every book as an intermediary between two worlds, the one the readers live in and the one the writers take their readers to when they read their stories. He is the author of more than 30 books for children, young adults and adults. His books have twice received the Canadian Governor General's Award for Children's Literature, and he has won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America and several Best Children and Young Adults' Book of the Year Awards from the Canadian Library and the American Library Association. Wynne-Jones also has the distinction of being the first Canadian author to win the Boston-Globe Horn Book Award. His work has been translated into Japanese, Korean, Danish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Hebrew and Catalan. He holds a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the University of Waterloo and a master's degree in visual arts from York University. |
| U.S. Civil Rights Struggle Lecture | Rebecca de Schweinitz, a professor of history at Brigham Young University, will be presenting "Civil Rights Stories: Childhood, Brown and America's Struggle for Racial Equality," at an American Studies Lecture Thursday, Nov. 5, at 11 a.m. in the Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium. De Schweinitz will be speaking on one of the chapters from her latest book, "If We Could Change the World: Young People and America's Long Struggle for Racial Equality" (2009), which offers a new perspective on the civil rights movement by bringing children and youth to the center of the movement. Her research specializes in the history of U.S. children, women and gender, as well as African American history. Her publications include, "The 'Shame of America': African-American Civil Rights and the Politics of Childhood" and "Preaching the Gospel of Church and Sex: Mormon Women's Fiction in the LDS Young Woman's Journal, 1889-1910." She holds a bachelor's degree in history from BYU and master's and doctoral degrees in U.S. history from the University of Virginia. |
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| Women's Soccer: Semifinal GM#4: #1 BYU vs.(UNM or WY) | MWC Conference Women's Soccer BYU Women's Soccer is now on sale. |
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| Film: BLAST! | The Documentary Film Series presents the film BLAST! The story of a revolutionary new telescope launched on a NASA high altitude balloon. Thursday, November 5 at 5:00 pm in the Harold B. Lee Library auditorium (level 1) |
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| Men's Basketball against Trinity Western | Please visit www.BYUtickets.com Live stats, live video, broadcast on BYU Television. |